noun:

• collected papers; collected works; collection of articles and essays

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take down (e.g. flag); to launch (e.g. boat); to drop; to lower (e.g. ladder); to let (a person) off; to unload; to discharge
• to drop off (a passenger from a vehicle); to let (a person) off
• to withdraw (cash)
• to wear (clothing) for the first time
• to fillet (e.g. a fish)

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun:

• double-sided wait (for one's last tile); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term

noun:

• double-sided wait (for one's last tile); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term ➜ 両面待ち【リャンメンまち】

noun:

• passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
• passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time ➜ 拾い箸

expression / adjective:

• (something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened - after the past tense form of a verb
• never happens; there is never a time when

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• rush work; crash program; working on a crash basis; working at top speed - four character idiom

noun:

• a number so great it can never be counted to - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "asamkhya"

numeric:

• 10^56 (or 10^64)

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• wind drying; drying something by hanging it in a drafty place (e.g. fish)

adverb:

• something going right into or coming right out of a place where it fits snugly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• process; operation; stage of a process; progress of work

noun:

• copybook printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy

noun:

• art works, traditional artifacts and antiques; artistic handicrafts; decorative art

noun:

• documents to be presented; work to be submitted; submitted document; submitted work

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make it a principle to ...; to aim at doing

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

noun:

• industry law; law regulating a certain industry
• work one is obligated to carry out - archaism

noun:

• method

noun:

• method

adverb / ~と adverb:

• decisively; decidedly; boldly; once and for all; unreservedly; frankly - onomatopoeia
• precisely; exactly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming in a field [literal] - idiom - humorous term